From “SXSW 2008 on BitTorrent: 3.5 GB of Free Music“:
The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival is one of the biggest and most popular in the United States. For the fourth year in a row, SXSW has released a DRM-less collection of songs that - thanks to Greg Hewgill - can now be downloaded for free via BitTorrent.
A little consolation for not being able to attend this year. :)
From “Carlos salué une dernière fois par ses amis du show-biz“:
Les fleurs criardes des chemises hawaïennes qui lui étaient chères, le blanc des légendaires fêtes d’Eddie Barclay à Saint-Tropez : pour une fois, ce n’est pas le noir qui a dominé lors d’obsèques à l’église Saint-Germain-des-Prés, hier matin, pour le dernier adieu à Carlos, disparu jeudi dernier à l’âge de 64 ans.
This one will surely mean nothing to anyone who hasn’t spent part of their life living in France, but will be a very sad news for anyone who has.
Although information is scarce on the English Wikipedia, you can still find some information on his more than extensive career in the French entertainment scene.
Rest in peace Carlos, and thank you so very much for the countless hours of joy you brought me as a child.
From “Understanding art for geeks - a photoset on Flickr“:
A way to explain art to geeks. The archive of www.paulthewineguy.com.
Absolutely brilliant! Click the image for the full Flickr set.
Via Doug’s Literal Barrage.
Richard Hammond presents Bloody Omaha (the graphics)
How 3 graphic designers created D-Day on a shoe string budget for the timewatch program “Bloody Omaha.”
Via Stevey, who’s getting to be my official source of cool videos.
I watched Lakai Footwear’s Fully Flared last night (thanks Stevey). Saying it’s the best sk8 video I have seen in years wouldn’t quite do it justice. It’s absolutely insane and I cannot recommend it enough.
My two favourite thrashers in the movie as far as style and technique, if I had to choose: Marc Johnson (by far) and Anthony Pappalardo.
I’m not going to say much more since I don’t want to spoil it for you, but do yourself a favour and go buy (or rent) it. You won’t regret it.
Oh, did I mention Spike Jonze was on the directors crew? Nuf’ said! :)
Update: I had to change the embedded video to a trailer, because it turns out the intro I had linked to got taken off YouTube. Oops. Just check out Lakai’s video archive for more clips.
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